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Apollo 17: Geography, Events, Members & Standards

Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above. Schmitt was the only professional geologist to land on…

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Apollo 17 topic overview

The analysis highlights Geography, Events, Members and Standards as prominent areas in the source structure around Apollo 17.

Related topics
188
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
195
Extracted relationships
291
Concept neighborhoods
55
Bridge connections
195

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 86 topics
Crew and key Mission Control personnel · 35 topics
Planning and training · 24 topics
Mission events · 21 topics
Aftermath and spacecraft locations · 12 topics
Mission insignia and call signs · 8 topics
Mission hardware and experiments · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Callsign
CSM: America · LM: Challenger
COSPAR ID
CSM: 1972-096A · LM: 1972-096C
Crew size
3
Distance driven
35.7 km (22.2 mi)
EVA duration
1 hour, 5 minutes, 44 seconds (spacewalk to retrieve film cassettes) · 22 hours, 3 minutes, 57 seconds · 1st: 7 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds · 2nd: 7 hours, 36 minutes, 56 seconds · 3rd: 7 hours, 15 minutes, 8 seconds
EVAs
1 in cislunar space

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Crew and key Mission Control personnel

Mission insignia and call signs

Planning and training

Mission hardware and experiments

Mission events

Aftermath and spacecraft locations

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Apollo 17 connects Entity context

The extracted context around Apollo 17 shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Apollo 17 → All, Apollo, Apollo Program Summary Report, Apollo Spacecraft, April, Bailey, Center, Characteristics, Chronology Archived December, David, Detailed, Excerpt, Geology, Giants, January, JSC-09423, Landing Site, Linda Neuman Ezell, Lunar, Lunar Photomap Another extracted example is Apollo 17 → Apollo, Copernicus, December, Director, Earth, Flight Operations Christopher, Following, For, J-mission, Kraft, Lastly, Like Apollo, Luna, Lunar Roving Vehicle, Mare Crisium, Mare Imbrium, Moon, NASA, NASA's, Nixon. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Apollo 17

Top relations

related to External links · 50
Apollo 17 → All, Apollo, Apollo Program Summary Report, Apollo Spacecraft, April, Bailey, Center, Characteristics, Chronology Archived December, David, Detailed, Excerpt, Geology, Giants, January, JSC-09423, Landing Site, Linda Neuman Ezell, Lunar, Lunar Photomap
related to Scheduling and landing site selection · 32
Apollo 17 → Apollo, Copernicus, December, Director, Earth, Flight Operations Christopher, Following, For, J-mission, Kraft, Lastly, Like Apollo, Luna, Lunar Roving Vehicle, Mare Crisium, Mare Imbrium, Moon, NASA, NASA's, Nixon
related to Crew and key Mission Control personnel · 31
Apollo 17 → After, After Cernan, Apollo, Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, August, Bell, Cape Kennedy, Cernan, Cernan's, Deke Slayton, Dick Gordon, Engle, Evans, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, In, In September, Indian River, January, Jim McDivitt
related to Return to Earth · 23
Apollo 17 → After, Apollo, Apollo's J-missions, As, At, Cernan, CSM, CSM's SPS, December, During, Earth, EST, EVA, Evans, EVAs, It, LM, Moon, Schmitt, SIM
related to Spacecraft and launch vehicle · 23
Apollo 17 → Apollo, CM, CM-114, Command Module, CSM, CSM-114, Launch Escape System, LES, LM, LM-12, Lunar Module, S-IVB, SA-512, Saturn, Service Module, SLA, SLA-21, SM-114, Spacecraft-Lunar Module Adapter, The
related to Solo activities · 22
Apollo 17 → According, Apollo, Copernicus, CSM, CSM's SIM, Earthlight, Eratosthenes, Evans, Grimaldi, In, LM's, Mare Orientale, Meteorite, Mission Report, Moon, Moon's, Schmitt, Similarly, The, TLP
related to Training · 19
Apollo 17 → Apollo, As, Big Bend National Park, Both Cernan, Cernan, Engle, February, Gordon Swann, In, June, Littrow, Lunar Roving Vehicle, Moon, October, Schmitt, Taurus, Texas, The, Their
related to Aftermath and spacecraft locations · 17
Apollo 17 → Allegiance, Apollo, Cernan, CM America, Evans, Following, He, NASA, Navy, New Mexico, None, Pledge, Schmitt, Super Bowl VII, The, There, United States Senate
related to Launch and outbound trip · 16
Apollo 17 → Among, Apollo, Approximately, Charlie Smith, December, Dick Gordon, EST, Florida, Kennedy Space Center, Miami, Neil Armstrong, Originally, Saturn, The, This, UTC
related to Mission insignia and call signs · 12
Apollo 17 → American, Apollo, Apollo Belvedere, Greek, It, Moon, Robert McCall, Saturn, The, These, Three, Vatican Museums

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

apollo lunar cernan 17 mission crew schmitt landing evans surface lm moon launch would astronauts spacecraft site time csm orbit

Apollo 17 relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 291 structured relationships around Apollo 17. Examples in this analysis include Apollo 17 → Callsign → CSM: America and Apollo 17 → Callsign → LM: Challenger. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Apollo 17CallsignCSM: America1.00infobox
Apollo 17CallsignLM: Challenger1.00infobox
Apollo 17COSPAR IDCSM: 1972-096A1.00infobox
Apollo 17COSPAR IDLM: 1972-096C1.00infobox
Apollo 17Crew size31.00infobox
Apollo 17Distance driven35.7 km (22.2 mi)1.00infobox
Apollo 17EVA duration1 hour, 5 minutes, 44 seconds (spacewalk to retrieve film cassettes)1.00infobox
Apollo 17EVA duration22 hours, 3 minutes, 57 seconds1.00infobox
Apollo 17EVA duration1st: 7 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds1.00infobox
Apollo 17EVA duration2nd: 7 hours, 36 minutes, 56 seconds1.00infobox
Apollo 17EVA duration3rd: 7 hours, 15 minutes, 8 seconds1.00infobox
Apollo 17EVAs1 in cislunar space1.00infobox
Apollo 17Landing dateDecember 19, 1972, 19:54:58 (1972-12-19UTC19:54:59Z) UTC1.00infobox
Apollo 17Landing dateDecember 11, 1972, 19:54:58 UTC1.00infobox
Apollo 17Landing mass5,500 kg (12,120 lb)1.00infobox
Apollo 17Landing siteSouth Pacific Ocean (.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo…1.00infobox
Apollo 17Landing siteTaurus–Littrow 20°11′27″N 30°46′18″E / 20.1908°N 30.7717°E / 20.1908; 30.77171.00infobox
Apollo 17Launch dateDecember 7, 1972, 05:33:00 (1972-12-07UTC05:33Z) UTC (12:33 am EST)1.00infobox
Apollo 17Launch mass48,609 kg (107,165 lb)1.00infobox
Apollo 17Launch siteKennedy, LC-39A1.00infobox
Apollo 17ManufacturerCSM: North American Rockwell1.00infobox
Apollo 17ManufacturerLM: Grumman1.00infobox
Apollo 17MembersEugene A. Cernan1.00infobox
Apollo 17MembersRonald E. Evans1.00infobox
Apollo 17MembersHarrison H. Schmitt1.00infobox
Apollo 17Mission duration12 days, 13 hours, 51 minutes, 59 seconds1.00infobox
Apollo 17Mission typeCrewed lunar landing (J)1.00infobox
Apollo 17OperatorNASA1.00infobox
Apollo 17Orbital departureDecember 16, 1972, 23:35:09 UTC1.00infobox
Apollo 17Orbital insertionDecember 10, 1972, 19:53:55 UTC1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Apollo 17 bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Crew, Lunar and Mission. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Apollo 17
    • Crew
    • Lunar
    • Mission
    • Program
    • Landing
    • Spacecraft
    • Nasa
    • Astronauts
    • Time
    • Site
    • Launch
    • Final
  • apollo 17
    • Crew
    • Lunar
    • Mission
    • Program
    • Landing
    • Spacecraft
    • Nasa
    • Astronauts
    • Time
    • Site
    • Launch
    • Final
  • apollo program
    • Crew
    • Lunar
    • Mission
    • Program
    • Landing
    • Time
    • Spacecraft
    • Nasa
    • Astronauts
    • Site
    • Launch
    • Space
  • moon
    • Spacecraft
    • Schmitt
    • Lunar
    • Hours
    • Would
    • Surface
    • Evans
    • Time
    • Site
    • Est
    • Program
    • Astronauts
  • gene cernan
    • Schmitt
    • Evans
    • Lm
    • Lunar
    • Landing
    • Hours
    • Surface
    • Site
    • Module
    • Csm
    • Littrow
    • Taurus
  • ronald evans
    • Schmitt
    • Csm
    • Surface
    • Orbit
    • Hours
    • Lm
    • Lunar
    • Module
    • Moon
    • Time
    • Would
    • Two
  • lunar highland
    • Surface
    • Module
    • Schmitt
    • Orbit
    • Landing
    • Mission
    • Site
    • Crew
    • Moon
    • Lm
    • Time
    • Vehicle
  • taurus–littrow
    • Taurus
    • Site
    • Hours
    • Nasa
    • Orbit
    • Schmitt
    • Lm
    • Csm
    • Three
    • Following
    • Would
    • Crew

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Apollo 17, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Apollo 17 with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Apollo 17 — Overview · splits 109 ⟂ 87
Apollo 17 — Crew and key Mission Control personnel · splits 160 ⟂ 36
Apollo 17 — Planning and training · splits 171 ⟂ 25
Apollo 17 — Mission events · splits 174 ⟂ 22
Apollo 17 — Aftermath and spacecraft locations · splits 183 ⟂ 13
Apollo 17 — Mission insignia and call signs · splits 187 ⟂ 9
Apollo 17 — Mission hardware and experiments · splits 193 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Apollo 17

Nodes196
Edges195
Triples291
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010204
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Apollo 17 to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Geography, Events, Members & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Apollo 17 · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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